Overview of File Manager® editor actions

In addition to the basic edit functionality, the File Manager® editor provides a set of actions to improve productivity. These actions are available in the File Manager® menu toolbar, as toolbar items, or directly from the editor's pop-up menu.

The toolbar menu and toolbar items
The File Manager® plug-in editor pop-up menu

Follow the links for more detailed explanations of the actions.

Database Position icon Database Position
Delete icon Delete records
Find/Replace action
Turns on or off hex lines
Page down cached records
Page up cached records
Save
SHOW options
Switch editor mode
Validate editor contents

Database Position icon Database Position

This action allows the user to position on an IMS segment within the IMS database.

The Database position is specified using Database Positioning dialog which is shown in the picture below. On this dialog select the segment and its parents in the hierarchy that you wish to position on, fill in the Segment key values and File Manager® IMS will position on the IMS segment.

Database Positioning dialog

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Delete icon Delete records

This action deletes the currently selected records in the editor. A Delete all records checkbox provides the option of deleting the entire contents of the resource.

Once records are deleted, they are removed from the editor for display. However, the records are not deleted from the original source unless a Save is performed explicitly.

The delete confirmation dialog allows you to specify an option to delete all records (see below). If you try to execute delete action without a valid selection in the editor, then this option is selected by default.

Delete records options dialog

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Find/Replace

This action enables you to search for a specific pattern (either by a string literal or hex value) within the currently edited IMS database. Furthermore, you can issue a replace command which replaces the occurrences of searched patterns with the specified replacement pattern. Find/Replace options are specified using Find/Replace dialog which is shown in the picture below.

Find/Replace dialog